How about not putting in a five or six year old chip like the AK4490 or 4493. If you're going to consider ESS then turn it into a beast with dual 9038Pro chips. If SMSL can come up with a single chip dac/amp in the $300 ballpark this design shouldn't break the bank. I'm not trying to be...

Here's what will hopefully be the luckiest posting that I've made. Hoping for a Q5s since the amp module won't do much good with nothing to connect it with.

Could it be a DAP that doesn't take 3 years for the firmware to work correctly? That might be a winner.

Hello! First post but a long time follower of the threads on head-fi. As a music lover for close to half a century now I'm slowing increasing my collection of audiophile class headphones, transports, DACs and amps. Even though I "joined" here almost a year ago, I guess that I'm still...

Can the one be changed without having to do a complete factory reset? If I use Google Music and choose that as my one streaming app (assuming that it's an option) then three months later I join Tidal would I be able to replace Google Music with Tidal without losing any customized settings...

Sorry, I disagree with you on the necessity of streaming. Not because of streaming services like Tidal or Spotify but because I have a little over 3.5 TB of lossless music files and trying to manage a library of this size on micro sd cards is simply a time consuming, mind draining, pain in the...